A decade ago, the Town of Oyster Bay made a huge excavation at Plainview to prepare for a landfill.

Two city trucks had already disgorged a dozen men near the corner where they were ready to finish a huge excavation in the street.

In better times and with open space travel, this could have become a huge excavation or even a tourist destination, but now Pym was empty.

At first the project didn't resemble a book at all, but a sort of huge excavation like a mining operation.

The only remnants of that huge excavation were a length of road and a tunnel opening.

On the point of urging the bay on, he realized that they stood on the edge of a clay precipice, above a huge excavation.

With a huge excavation outside the window of her loft in an industrial neighborhood, Rebecca Dwyer, an artist, has been exasperated and inspired by the Big Dig.

The right branch ended after a dozen meters, opening into the top level of a huge, irregular excavation, a jagged, underground amphitheater dozens of meters across.

The Kailash Temple was created through a single, huge top-down excavation 100 feet deep down into the volcanic basaltic cliff rock.

The huge excavations now form lakes and a nature reserve.